Plastic bags live on in Red Bank as council kills proposal for ban

Nov. 12, 2008

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Efforts to ban plastic grocery bags as a way to reduce litter and help the environment did the legislative equivalent of dying on the operating table when no one on the Borough Council supported the proposal to bring it to a vote Monday night.

This came after a spirited debate in which Councilman Michael DuPont presented a video supporting a bag ban, a small shopkeeper showed one of 10,000 bags she ordered after being assured no ban was forthcoming, and bag industry representatives testified those bags are needed for a growing plastic ...